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[PRESS RELEASE] DRIVE ELECTRIC RESPONSE TO CLEAN CAR DISCOUNT CHANGES.

Drive Electric

With recent policy changes ending ideas like social leasing and scrappage schemes, we need new ideas to enable all New Zealanders to access EVs. Drive Electric has a membership of over seventy leading organisations representing the convergence of the e-mobility ecosystem: finance, automotive, infrastructure, energy and government.

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[PRESS RELEASE] Emissions Reduction Plan: Electric Vehicles will drive a low emissions future

Drive Electric

A vehicle scrappage scheme. Drive Electric has a membership of over fifty leading organisations representing the convergence of the e-mobility ecosystem: finance, automotive, infrastructure, energy and government. A social leasing programme. And the investigation of extending the Clean Car Discount to other vehicle types.

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Will you save money if you buy a green car? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Similarly, the Ford Focus ECOnetic only saves around £18 compared to its conventional alternative. The Ford Fiesta remains the top-selling new car with almost 67,000 registered in the first seven months of the year. Similarly, the Ford Focus ECOnetic is a full £2,250 cheaper than its conventional counterpart.

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Drive Electric Submission Land Transport (Clean Car) Amendment Bill

Drive Electric

Scrappage schemes. Mainstream brands like Honda, GM, Volvo, VW Group, Ford (Europe) have committed to going all EV, and recently Toyota announced a strong move in this direction also. Drive Electric supports the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’), and encourages New Zealand to be ambitious.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

By mid-2026, Ford says 100 percent of its passenger vehicle range in Europe will be zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid, before finally going full-electric in 2030. Ford’s commercial vehicles will also be zero-emissions capable by 2024. . Scrappage schemes . For example: .